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3[predicative](in bridge and whist) having been dealt no cards in a particular suit.

‘If she is not void, she must either follow suit or play a higher trump.’

‘Instead the game is void (no score or payment) and the same dealer deals again.’

‘Each player must follow suit until he is void (note that you are not allowed to trump while you still have a card of the led suit - this is unlike Pitch).’

‘If you have a singleton or void suit, you take a big risk that the declarer will find lots of cards of this suit in the talon when he exchanges, and your partner's stop in the suit might not be enough to beat the contract.’

‘If the led card is the 6, you may play any card you wish, being void in the diamond suit and thus unable to follow it.’

‘If the trump suit is lead, and a player is void, but holds a rank trump card, that player must play the rank trump card.’

‘There are also only eleven spades available, however, so the opposing players may eventually become void in spades if the holder of the honour cards waits long enough before playing them.’

‘The opponents should try to lead suits in which the declarer is void.’

‘A multiple lead may also win because an opponent, although void, does not have enough trumps to match the number of cards led.’

‘Having bid ulti, the declarer is obliged to keep the 7 of trumps as long as is legally possible, subject to the rules of following suit and trumping when void.’

‘East considers that it is best to trump with the QH and West, now void in the led suit of clubs, is allowed to over-trump with the AH’

‘The principle is that if a second card of a suit that has been led is played at the earliest opportunity, this guarantees that one of the players will be made to be void in that suit.’

‘For example if you try to bet after the following player has already played a card, your bet is void.’

‘This way you lose the lead and hope to trump with one of your small trumps when your void suit is led.’

noun

1A completely empty space.

‘the black void of space’

‘The galaxies then gathered in clusters, and the clusters gathered in long strings with humongous, almost empty, voids in between.’

‘But what is the earth itself but a small life-ship spinning through an endless space of unmapped voids?’

‘As Wallace rightfully notes, the observer outside of the hole sees it as a void, an empty place in space.’

‘The maps show the clustering of galaxies into a variety of large-scale structures, including long filaments, empty voids, and dense groups and clusters.’

‘There's a void, an empty space in my observations where the poor guy was which seems somehow to have failed to register properly.’

‘You can't imagine it as an empty black void, because you don't have eyes too see it, ears to hear it, or a brain to comprehend it.’

‘The deep shades of blue, interspersed with voids of black seem to create vivid patterns of the creative dance of the mind.’

‘You can do barrel rolls, switch between targets with the control pad, and dive effortlessly about within the void of space.’

‘Valerie felt like she had just fallen into a void, empty of everything, a place which made no sense.’

‘They are found in the great intergalactic voids - vast spaces between groupings of normal galaxies.’

‘It's too bad, I feel you miss a lot by conducting your maneuvers with hundreds of kilometers of empty void between your units.’

‘Thus it is left open, unfinished: It can be a space of possibility or an empty void.’

‘This basement was an empty void for a very long time and slowly became the museum in the 1980s.’

‘The abyss is not an empty void, but full of nature's wonderful mysteries.’

‘At least out in space the void was far from empty with starlight in every direction,’

‘The church seemed absolutely empty, the void being emphasized by its graceful coolness.’

‘Hot spots would one day become hotbeds of galaxy formation; cold spots would one day become great, empty voids.’

‘But she felt like she had a hole inside her: an empty space, a void, a little circle of darkness.’

‘The division between atoms and void was significant in that it attributed existence to empty space for the first time.’

‘What all atoms have in common is a large empty space, or void, which contains these quarks of energy, spinning around so fast as to provide the illusion of matter.’